•W  e promote internationalisation of German start-ups, for example with information, advisory and support services and with international accelerators. In addition to the existing accelerators in Silicon Valley and New York, in autumn of 2015 we included the life-sciences region in Boston in the programme and started a third accelerator. •W  e assist start-ups in connecting with established businesses in order to better utilise the innovative potential of start-ups for digitisation of all areas of the economy. •W  e are continuing the Women as Entrepreneurs initiative (FRAUEN unternehmen), and are working more closely with the Advisory Committee Young Digital Economy (Junge Digitale Wirtschaft). •W  e want to utilise the progress made in digitising government offices to make it easier to establish a company and to reduce bureaucracy so that start-ups have more to time to concentrate on establishing themselves on the market. •W  e will also reduce bureaucracy in the initial phase by introducing a single point of contact (Ansprechpartner 2.0) and by systematically pursuing our programme on eliminating bureaucracy (One-in – one-out). • F urthermore, we will converge existing information and advisory services for business starters and entrepreneurs into Start-up Portal 4.0 (Gründerportal 4.0) as a tool for making the process of starting a company easier and more efficient.